Rizal's Crossword Puzzle

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Across
  1. 3. _____ was abolished and government criticisms were also accepted during dela Torre’s reign.
  2. 4. Rizal led a _____ life in Madrid. He lived frugally, managed his time wisely for studying, attending lectures and going to the operas and religious fiestas.
  3. 6. The next academic year (1884-1885) he studied and passed all the subjects leading to a degree of Doctor of _____.
  4. 8. Rizal first boarded in a house outside Intramuros, at _____ Street, a few minutes walk from the college.
  5. 9. In 1875, Rizal dedicated "_____” to his brother-in-law Antonio Lopez
  6. 10. On May 3, 1882, Rizal boarded the _____.
  7. 12. She was an epileptic who died at the age of 80 as a spinster.
  8. 16. It is a Latin word which means “green field."
  9. 18. He wanted to be a _____ so that he may cure his mother’s failing eyesight.
  10. 19. She was also a spinster. She died at the age of 83.She administered much of Rizal's properties in Dapitan.
  11. 20. _____, Laguna was a special place for Jose Rizal. It is here where he was born, raised and spent his early childhood.
  12. 22. She became the wife of Silvestre Ubaldo, a telegraph operator of Manila. She died in 1887 from childbirth.
  13. 24. He was the family caretaker After his younger brother’s execution, he joined the Philippine Revolution. He retired to his farm in Los Baños where he lived as a farmer.
  14. 25. _____ Alonzo Realonda is the mother of Jose Rizal.
  15. 28. It started on January 20, when the laborers received their pay and realized that the taxes and the falla, the fine one paid to be exempt from forced labor, were deducted from them.
  16. 29. A pretty, young girl wearing a red skirt trying to catch two butterflies whom Jose saw when he was fifteen.
  17. 32. Fr. Pedro Casañas stood as Rizal’s godfather or _____.
  18. 34. the Rizal family also had a library of more than a thousand volumes of _____ and Spanish books.
  19. 35. Jose Rizal dedicated his second novel, _____, to the executed priests.
  20. 40. Because he was boarding outside Ateneo, he was referred to as an "_____."
  21. 42. His collections of numerous books were on medicine, philosophy, _____, geography and the arts among others.
  22. 44. Rizal declared in the speech called “_____” that talent is not a monopoly of any race or country because it can be found in anyone and anywhere around the world.
  23. 45. Both Rizal’s grandfather Juan, and great-grandfather Francisco became _____ or town mayors of Biñan.
  24. 46. Rizal's prime encounter with _____ occurred when he was in Spain, where he made the acquaintance of some liberal and republican Spaniards who were mostly Masons.
  25. 47. From Marseilles, Rizal took a train to _____, the 2nd largest Spanish city in the province of Cataluña, which he thought was ugly, dirty and the people inhospitable.
  26. 48. _____ was the woman who awakened the heart of Rizal to love anew. He did not pursue his love for her because he still loved Leonor and he was planning to leave Madrid after his studies. She chose Eduardo de Lete over Rizal.
Down
  1. 1. Many ____ professors were impressed by Rizal’s artistic skills.
  2. 2. _____ Lopez Jaena, a noted orator and pamphleteer who had left the islands for Spain in 1880 after the publication of his satirical short novel, Fray Botod (Brother Fatso), an unflattering portrait of a provincial friar.
  3. 5. _____ died of cholera and was denied Christian burial because he was a brother-in-law of Dr. Jose Rizal
  4. 7. In the second half of his first year, he resented some remarks of his professor which had greatly affected his academic standing. At the end of the year, he was only in second place but still maintained all his excellent grades or"_____."
  5. 11. "Spare the rod and _____ the child."
  6. 13. The _____ of Parishes is the handing down of parishes to secular priests once the missionaries are transferred to new assignments;
  7. 14. Eventually, in 1883, Rizal joined the Masonic lodge in Madrid which was called _____.
  8. 15. A town aristocracy in Spanish Philippines to which Rizal’s family belonged.
  9. 17. Jose used the surname _____ when he registered at Ateneo.
  10. 21. She became the wife of Daniel Faustino Cruz of Biñan, Laguna.
  11. 23. _____ Mercado is the father of Jose Rizal. He was a native of Biñan, Laguna.
  12. 25. Rizal was asked to contribute an article to the Diariong _____ by Basilio Teodoro Moran, an editorial staffer.
  13. 26. Rizal was baptized three days later by Fr. _____ Collantes at St. John the Baptist parish of Calamba.
  14. 27. She became the wife of Mariano Herbosa, a town mate from Calamba.
  15. 30. The eldest who became the wife of Manuel Hidalgo of Tanawan, Batangas.
  16. 31. Jose Rizal’s nickname.
  17. 33. On June 11, 1882, Rizal reached the city of _____ in Italy. It is a city in Southern Italy, situated on the country's west coast by the Gulf of Naples.
  18. 36. Rizal was the _____ in a brood of eleven children in his family.
  19. 37. Rizal came to know _____ more intimately during his weekly visit to La Concordia College, where his sister Olimpia was a boarding student.
  20. 38. Rizal’s uncle who was a lover of books and a writer, would instill in him a passion for writing and an appreciation for poetry and literature.
  21. 39. The marriage of Francisco and Teodora was blessed with _____ children – two boys and nine girls.
  22. 41. At the age of nine, Jose would be sent by his parents to Biñan to continue his primary education under the instruction of Maestro _____ Aquino Cruz.
  23. 43. She was the youngest in the family. She became the wife of Pantaleon Quintero also from Calamba.
  24. 46. Rizal drew on his personal experiences and depicted the conditions of Spanish rule in the islands, particularly the abuses of the _____.